On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:47:51 +0100, Andrew Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just wanting to know if anyone on here has any recommendations for
> backup programs for my Debian box. I'm looking for a program with a
> nice, easy to use gui

Well my suggestions will fail that criteria

> which can do automated backups of parts of the
> filesystem and then store the backup on a smb mount. 

A combination of a cron job; logrotate; and cp. Some people use rsync.

> I'd like something
> that makes it easy to extract individual files as well as extracting the
> whole archive. 

Recursively backup a single directory, and insert symlinks to the
files you want to backup in this directory.

Hope this helps - a GUI tool may well exist but these simple tools
aren't too hard to combine.

-- 
Jon Dowland


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